“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsLittlesHappensTodayValuesLeftJudgingAchievementHappeningsBusySpeedThings HappenMeaning Of LifeLittle TimeTime LeftLittle Time Left Author:Joan D. Chittister
“We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.” NeedsSpiritualPeriodsEthicsGlobalization Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.” PeopleWayWantNeeds Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.” WorldNeedsWellsSpiritualityCoursesDifficultSubjectsLessonsLive LifeConsistentNeglectCultFadsWorkaholicDifficult Subjects Author:Joan D. Chittister
“What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow paradise where we can massage away the heat of the day, the questions of the time, the injustice of the age, and live like pious moles in the heart of a twisted world. Or, we can gather our strength - our spiritual strength - for the struggle it will take to wake up from this pious sleep.” WorldNeedsHeartAgeFacesSpiritualChoicesSpiritualitySleepStruggleCenturyWake UpInjusticeHeatParadiseRetiring21st CenturyTwistedPiousMassageFrayMolesMarshmallowSpiritual Strength Author:Joan D. Chittister
“It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.” NeedsSoulSometimesToo MuchTasteClothesEdgesAppreciationBonesDullFree TimeMarrowJade Author:Joan D. Chittister
“I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsBelieveChildrenFactsLife IsBornCasesBirthMoralityConversationTaxesEducatedAbortionFedsLackingNunPro LifeAnti AbortionPro AbortionCatholic Pro Life Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.” WorldNeedsRunningSpiritualSpiritualityRiskFeminismBecomingIntellectualSakeIdeologyJust OneRejectsArrogantSuperficialGhettoElitist Author:Joan D. Chittister
“We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is” NeedsLife IsMoralityConversationNunPro LifeAnti AbortionPro AbortionCatholic Pro Life Author:Joan D. Chittister
“Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.” WantNeedsDesireVision Author:Joan D. Chittister
